What are the main traits that characterize feeding strategies in marine zooplankton?

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Dola Bhattacharjee

Your question is not clear to me. What exactly you want to know?

Alejandro Damian-Serrano

Mechanistic properties, size ratios, behaviors.. Etc which may be transversal to all body plans and determine feeding rate, efficiency.. Etc

S. Lan Smith

This nice paper will give you some quite relevant info.

How zooplankton feed: mechanisms, traits and trade-offs

Thomas Kiørboe

DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00148.x

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00148.x/abstract